I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.